SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.

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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Crain Ridge (GBR) 74° 45' 00.0" S 63° 50' 00.0" W Ridge
Name ID: 108341 Place ID: 3081

rising to c. 1050m in Latady Mountains, Lassiter Coast, was roughly surveyed by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in 1947-48; photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from the air photographs by USGS; named after Harold D.K. Crain, USASA handyman, "South Pole Station", winter 1967 (USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.3; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981).

Crain Ridge (USA) 74° 45' 00.0" S 63° 50' 00.0" W Ridge
Name ID: 123900 Place ID: 3081

A ridge along the N flank of Strange Glacier in the Latady Mountains, Palmer Land. Mapped by USGS from ground surveys and USN air photos, 1961-67. Named by US-ACAN for Harold D.K. Crain, utilitiesman with the South Pole Station winter party in 1967.

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